RECITALS

An electrifying cabaret about infidelity, love, lust, and crimes of passion, featuring such firm favorites as How could we be wrong and I'm Unlucky at Gambling by Cole Porter, Je ne t'aime pas by Kurt Weill, and You Can Have Him by Irving Berlin. Also featuring songs by Tom Lehrer, Jonathan Dove and William Bolcom, the program swings in subject matter from the naughty to the murderous to the sublime.

These are women who live on the fringes of society and trample the restrictions of “shoulds and oughts.” They range from the feared legendary figures of temptresses, sirens and witches, to trapped women with threatened sanities, women ‘in britches’ who fight for equality and bend the boundaries of gender, to women who are murderesses, kleptomaniacs and home-wreckers.

From the exhilarating giddiness of a first encounter, to the rose-tinted stage of identifying the unexpected poetry of a coffee plunger, to the aftermath where you avoid changing the broken light bulb in the bathroom for three weeks because…. why bother?

First date jitters? Want to try something kinky and don't know how to ask for it? Need an expert on getting out of a sticky situation? Look no further.

This is DATING 101: a cabaret program tracking the surprises, joys and hazards of relationships, from the awkward first date to wedding vows to the divorce court. It will NOT help any of your actual problems, but will certainly allow you to laugh at them.

How do you anchor yourself from day to day? Our hearts are elastic: can such big feelings be kept in tow with only little wisdoms? How do we learn to grow up? How do we carry on after someone close to us has passed away?

I look on this recital as a self-help book of song - words and music that can comfort, heal and teach.